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Nexus is a Latin word that roughly translated means "bind," but it now may also mean the opposite. The new, improved Nexus card unbinds tangles of red tape and frustration for airport travelers -and it's about time. The Nexus pass that enables frequent travellers across the Canada-U.S. border to zip through customs has now been upgraded to help them zip through airport security.
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Today we must tip our hats to the four oilpatch firefighters who suffered serious burns when they went to the aid of rig workers injured in Monday's gas well explosion near Edson. The president of the industrial safety service company HSE Integrated is calling the firefighters "heroes" for their courage in fighting the fire and aiding the injured workers despite their own injuries.
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More useful diagnosis? Ask better questions
In 2009, 351 people were killed in collisions on Alberta roads. Without doubt, the government of Alberta could have saved many of those lives if it had slashed all speed limits in half, tripled the police assigned to traffic enforcement and spent millions of dollars on more new photo-radar emplacements. Does its failure to take these actions make it -or individual ministers -responsible for some of these deaths?
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Don't retreat on funding reclamation
For years, Alberta's auditor general has warned Alberta Environment that its oilsands mine financial-security program has been inadequate and that it exposes taxpayers to financial risk. The program was set up to ensure that funds are set aside to reclaim the land to a natural state when the giant open pit mines are closed.
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Confused by Duncans
When you make a political blunder, it sometimes helps limit the damage if you go all the way past stupid into the realm of funny. Calgary cabinet minister Jason Kenney's office has accomplished this rare feat with a fundraising plea sent out on Parliamentary letterhead asking for money to target "very ethnic" ridings in the next election.
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Steps forward on arena decision
In the slow gestation of a major project like Edmonton's downtown arena, there are moments of apparent activity in which the most honest summary is "Nothing really happened today." Wednesday, however, wasn't one of those times: despite appearances to the contrary at another city hall information session, two significant new steps have been taken.
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Stern measures to clear roads
Anyone driving city residential streets lately has almost literally taken their lives in their hands. Weaving in and out of icy ruts between cars parked alongside massive windrows has been frustrating and dangerous. Getting around oncoming vehicles has often required brilliant strategy and a deft hand at the controls. Edmonton winters are long and treacherous enough without residents having to put up with that on a daily basis.
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From Penner deal, new puzzle pieces
Whatever opinion Edmonton fans had of the dearly departed Dustin Penner, trading the big winger to the Los Angeles Kings was critical to Oilers' aspirations to return to Stanley Cup contention. Penner was acquired at significant cost to boost the team's playoff fortunes, but what he never accomplished as a player here, he may accomplish by being elsewhere. Now he is a big part of Plan B: rebuilding for the future.
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Now it's Sherman's turn to explain
Renegade Tory MLA Raj Sherman broke a cardinal rule of politics Monday. When he made accusations in the legislature of hush money paid to doctors who complained of Albertans dying on waiting lists, he launched the kind of missile that can't be disarmed in flight.
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Afghanistan exit strategy; Tory spending
Following are excerpts from recent blog postings The Journal found timely. For the full text, please check out the links at the bottom of each item.
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Facebook status hooked by app
If not the apocalypse, it is surely a sign of something sinister that there is now a Facebook "app" called Breakup Notifier, and that this new cybersupplier of alerts on friends' relationships quickly had millions of users.
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Budget rich in troubling questions
Alberta taxpayers got an eye-opener when they sifted through Thursday's budget and discovered how huge a handout they were giving to oil and gas companies through the province's drilling stimulus program. The Tory government had forecast the programs in 2010 would cost about $732 million -no small number in itself -but the real cost is expected to be more than double that amount at $1.6 billion.
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Council stalls on taxi emissions
City council has rejected a proposal to put age restrictions on city cabs to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It was considering phasing in restrictions to ban taxis older than five years by 2013.
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Conservatives not conserving our caribou
The Banff caribou herd is extinct. Ten of 13 other Alberta woodland caribou herds are in decline.
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Getting it right on crime policy
Since Premier Ed Stelmach arrived touting a safe communities mandate, the province has pumped nearly a half-billion dollars into policing, boosting by 300 the number of officers on the streets and restructuring the law enforcement machinery to make it more effective and efficient.
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Dreams fly at 'Blatchford Fields'
An oasis in the heart of Edmonton? Parks, lakes and ravines? Skating on a three-kilometre-long canal?
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Glacier view should be free
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a view worth?
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Vindication is probably a dish best served hot -but for David Schindler it's just as delicious cold.
